The Asian region is a major supplier of fish products to the EU market. Over the period 2005-2010 in particular, the aquaculture sector in some Asian countries became an important producer as well as exporter of whitefish and shrimps.This article provides a su…
Jun Qiang, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, and Hong Yanga look at the interacting effects of water temperature and dietary protein levels on hematological parameters in Nile tilapia juveniles and mortality under Streptococcus iniae infection.
This article by Nathan K Lujan et al, Texas A&M University, looks at trophic diversity in the evolution and community assembly of South American loricariid catfishes.
Neil Wendover, MSD Animal Health, Singapore, uses field experiences from Asia to look at the implications of vaccine development for streptococcus in tilapia. Taken from the MSD Animal Health 'Bacterial Disease in Warmwater Fish: New Strategies for Sustainable…
Mark Gaikowski, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, US, determines the depletion of florfenicol (FFC) in water and florfenicol amine (FFA), a marker for FFC residue, from the fillet of market-weight tilapia in a recirculating aquaculture system (rAS) …
Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) is one of the most economically important freshwater fish, but its production is often affected by diseases that cause serious economic losses, report researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Fish are constantly being moved and transported, having both an affect on their health and on their meat quality. Hans Van de Vis, from the Netherlands Institute for Marine Resources & Ecosystem Studies has looked at the stress response in farmed African c…
Rogrio Salvador, North Paran State University, looks at the impact of streptococcosis on tilapia in Brazil and efficacy of AquaVac Strep Sa for managing the disease under controlled conditions. Taken from the MSD Animal Health 'Bacterial Disease in Warmwater F…
Tilapia is losing ground in the US market whilst catfish supply is expected to increase during 2012 but with a stronger focus on quality and safety, according to the FAO Global Food Outloook.
This study aims to investigate the impact of commonly used pesticides (deltamethrin) on the blood and tissue oxidative stress level in catfish; in addition to the protective effect of alpha-tocopherol on deltamethrin induced oxidative stress, write Kamal A Ami…
Hybrid catfish offer productionadvantages over channel catfish.Trials have shown the greatersurvival and faster growth of thehybrids allows shorter productioncycles. The hybrids alsohave better feed conversion andfillet yield, writes Nagaraj G. Chatakondi, USD…
Low market prices challenge the Chinese tilapia industry as it seeks to become sustainable, writes Dr Liu Liping and Dr Zhang Zongfen from Shanghai Ocean University, and Dr Francis Murray and Dr David Little from the University of Stirling. Taken from the Glob…
The pangasius industry in Viet Nam faced difficulties of supply, with increased production costs, disease problems and high interest rates for bank loans. However, imports during the first half of 2011 increased to the US market but declined to the EU, writes …
Fish farming in Nigeria is currently a very lucrative business and it is mainly boosted by the continuous rise in the demand for catfish, reports the Nigerian Tribune.
Tilapia breeding is profitable only if it is solely focused on male populations. Hormonal inversion methods currently used to produce these populations have, however, many drawbacks. CIRAD has been investigating a genetic approach for several years and just di…
The Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (MAFES) and Delta Western Research Centre (DWRC) have collaborated on catfish nutrition research for two decades with the primary goal of reducing catfish production cost by developing cost-efficient…
An ambitious project aims to train over 800 smallholders a year in sustainable aquaculture, with the long term aim of reducing poverty in the South Rachounyo District of Homa Bay County of Kenya. Charlotte Johnston, TheFishSite editor reports.
